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Roman wine press in PiesportPhoto: Deutsches Weininstitut
Roman wine press in Piesport. During land consolidation in 1985, a Roman wine press from the 4th century AD was uncovered at the foot of the Piesport Goldtröpfchen, to the east of the Piesport Domherr. The 44 x 20 metre facility is considered to be the largest Roman wine press north of the Alps. The capacity is estimated at an annual production of around 60000 litres of wine. Every year in October, the fully functional wine press is put into operation on the occasion of the Roman Wine Press Festival in Piesport in order to press grapes as in Roman times. In addition to the actual wine press, the facility also includes two mash basins and a fumarium, a smoke chamber that was used to give the wine premature ripeness through the effect of smoke. However, this type of wine treatment was quite controversial in the Roman Empire. Pliny the Elder, for example, complained that the method was highly harmful and an invention of the wine merchants. In 1992, a second, much smaller wine press from the 2nd century was found in Piesport.